University of New Hampshire
Thompson Hall, 105 Main Street
Durham, N.H. 03824-3577
Tel: (603) 862-2186 Fax: (603) 862-4140
Overview
The Institute for Policy and Social Science Research (IPSSR) operates at the University of New Hampshire within the College of Liberal Arts to serve two goals: facilitate innovation in the teaching and research programs of the University and help to focus the intellectual resources of the school on important problems of the community.
The Institute has its main office in Thompson Hall on the Durham main campus. It assists in the management of the Browne Center, which provides offices, seminar rooms, dining, and team-building training facilities on 103 acres of field and forest 3.5 miles south of town.
Grants and contracts administered through the Institute to support projects by central staff and affiliated faculty currently total more than $5 million.
Director of IPSSR
Dennis Meadows, Professor of Systems Policy
College of Liberal Arts Business Service Center for Grants and Contracts:
Angele Cook, Office Manager
Cindy Corriveau
Susan Crockett-Pelletier
Nicole Runde
Kaushalia Tailor
The Laboratory for Interactive Learning:
Picturing Writing: Fostering Literacy Through Art
Image-Making Within The Writing Process
Beth Olshansky, Project Director
Liz Arcieri, Assistant
Games and Publications
The Laboratory was created to design, publish, disseminate, and conduct
training programs for innovative, group-centered learning.
Activities include our sustainable development games Fish Banks Ltd. and Stratagem, and our art-based writing programs listed above.
Other publications distributed to teachers include: Creating High Performance Teams, The System Thinking Playbook, Games from Many Nations, Beyond the Limits and Alternatives to Growth.
Orders will be suspended during the summer of 2004. Contact Dennis Meadows for updated information.
The UNH Program on Social Capital
Thad Guldbrandsen, Research Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Program on Social Capital
Frank Spinelli, Program Assistant
The Program on Social Capital
With the support of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, the UNH Program on Social Capital began in the Fall of 2002. Social capital pertains to the values derived from social networks. The mission of the Program on Social Capital is to advance understanding of social networks, connect people working on social capital projects, and support individuals and organizations throughout New Hampshire who seek to build social capital in their own communities. The program seeks to carry out its mission by supporting research on social capital in New Hampshire, sponsoring public lectures pertaining to social capital, and publishing reports and other useful information in a periodic newsletter and web page.
For more information, please contact Thad Guldbrandsen at 603/862-1135.
The UNH Survey Center
Andrew E. Smith, Director
Martha Belanger, Program
Assistant/Field Director
The UNH Survey Center
The UNH Survey Center provides a public service and assists in faculty research. The Center, located within the Institute's offices in Thompson Hall, houses specialized software and 24 computer-assisted interviewing stations. It is one of the most technically advanced polling facilities in the Northeast.
Private companies, media organizations, government agencies, and non-profit groups utilize our services.
A special focus of the Survey Center is on developing innovative uses for e-mail and the world wide web in social surveys.
Justiceworks
Justiceworks: Northern New England Consortium for Research on the Prevention and Control of Crime
Ted Kirkpatrick, Director
Joe Pace, Executive Assistant
Justiceworks, located in the Institute for Policy and Social Science
Research at the University of New Hampshire, represents a broad group
of researchers, state planners, policy makers, and professionals in the
criminal justice systems of New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine. Justiceworks
has a three-part mission of applied research, information management,
and training.
Visit www.justiceworks.unh.edu
for more information.
Hungarian Exchange
The Institute manages an exchange program at the Budapest University for Economic Sciences and Public Administration (BUESPA). The program now focuses on Justice Studies with courses taught by UNH faculty.This exchange is a unique opportunity to study overseas while taking UNH approved courses credited toward your degree. Dormitory housing is provided for participating students and faculty on the central campus.
The Balaton Group
In 1981 Dennis Meadows and Donella Meadows conceived a world-wide network that would bring together teachers, researchers, and consultants from many countries. The goal was to create a support group for those working at the frontiers of science and politics related to sustainable development.The first meeting of this group was held in 1982 in Hungary, making it comparatively easy to invite Soviet and East European participants to the same venue as their Western colleagues. Hungarian officials provided a small hotel on the shore of Lake Balaton, about 60 miles southwest of Budapest. The Balaton Group met there annually ever since, and it now includes several hundred scientists and their students.
The IPSSR provides administrative and scientific assistance to the Balaton Group, and has supported the participation of many UNH faculty and students in the Hungarian meetings of the group.
Winant Fellowship
The Winant Fellowship endowment is administered by the Institute. It provides income for grants to encourage student interest in careers that involve policy and public service. In the summer of 1995, four students each received a $2,000 fellowship. Internship agencies have included Dover Children's Home, Victims Assistance Program, The Chase Home, Nashua Children's Center and the New Hampshire State Senate.
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